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Sunday, May 4, 2014

The Australian journalist Ella Winter once said to Thomas
Wolfe “Don’t you know you can’t go home again”. Of course he used that title
and the quote is often mistakenly attributed to him.

Obviously today’s Baby-Boomers (along with their Gen-x’ers,
Millenniums, Gen y’s and maybe z’s etc) have not paid attention and are
beginning to intrude on the living quarters of both the Greatest & Silent
Generations as today’s economy, unemployment and daily hardships force the
sharing of home, hearth and video games again.

Multi-generational boomer-angers and all those prune juicers
together under one roof should prove challenging.

I have heard that there are as much as 90 + million
Americans either unemployed or underemployed, and the hope and change promised
just a few short years’ ago never actually materialized, with facts and figures
shrouded in nothing more than the slick tongues of snake oil salesman.

There is an uneasiness that seems to permeate the spirits of
today’s citizens, who for decades believed in the American dream.

This dream should never waiver; we have sailed through these
rough waters before, and can do so once again, when we realize that we truly
are the greatest nation on earth.

Immigrants continue to climb walls and dodge bullets to get
here, much like many of our ancestors.

And don't forget the men and women who continue to fight for this dream on battlefields.

Yes, in many ways we can go home again.

The answers are out there, and we have 300 million voices
that can contribute to the solution.